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Annrose
09-03-2009, 02:27 PM
My son and I still talk about this incident. I hope this will brighten your day.
One morning, when Baby (tiel) was about 4 months old, I had gone to the living room, pulled open the curtains @ the picture window. Their cages sat at that time catty corner from the window. Said my good mornings to Baby & Tweeder, and then went to get my shower.
Next thing I hear is Baby who lets out this blood curdling scream, and then you can hear him drop to the bottom of the cage like whop! Everyone in the house came running (me in my nightgown), and I was the first on the scene.
Sitting in the picture window, is this HUGE black cat. I am not exaggerating, this cat weighs around 25-30 lbs. I go running out the front door, yelling at him to get away. (with my husband & son yelling at me, to put some cloths on).
In the meantime, Baby was in the bottom of his cage shaking. My husband missed the cat, and was like what the !@!@$#$% is wrong with him, and why are you running outside yelling, half dressed?
So here I am trying to explain… how would you feel… if you were minding your own business… in your bedroom and turned around… and there was this “Black Monster” that is probably 1000 times your size, staring at you, eye to eye. There was probably a whole 18” between the cage and the window. The way the cat was sitting on the ledge, Baby was eye to eye with this black monster.
My husband just didn’t get it. Since we had 4 dogs at the time. But the only one who was tall enough for Baby to see was the Irish Setter. We had 3 mini doxies back then. Even so, the Setter was never eye to eye with Baby….dah…
Being as laid back as he is, Baby recovered quite quickly, probably more quickly than I did, since I had thought he’d had a stroke when I heard the whop….and in the meantime, had just about given me one.
In the meantime, given the time of morning that it was, I am sure that the neighbors got a good show, and are still probably wondering, if I am some kind of lunatic, running around half dressed yelling at the top of my lungs to get out, go away, and of course they probably never saw the Black Monster……
Hope this brightens someones day....AR

Kokomo
09-03-2009, 07:49 PM
LOL. That was good. :D But I'm easy. Any type of excitement coupled with half-dressed women pretty much does it for me. LOL.

LeRoy's owner
09-03-2009, 09:33 PM
It brightened mine. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .............................connie

mobetta
09-03-2009, 09:59 PM
How funny! Im glad your bird was okay.

Annrose
09-03-2009, 11:14 PM
I'm still learning who's who here...but Kokomo's repsponse was a hoot!
Your visual was undoubtably, of a half dressed 20 year model....
as opposed to a over the hill old lady...ha,ha.

nekedfeet
09-04-2009, 01:38 AM
Aww--- poor Baby!!! Its no fun to have that kind of fright. Good story though!

Just this past week we had one of our own: Galileo(our Caique) was on his play stand in front of our big windows, and my husband and myself were out on our balcony watching an enormous hawk that had landed on the building opposite us. He seemed very agitated-- looking around this way and that, but didn't seem to be moving any time soon. Galileo was so engrossed in his toys that for once he didn't notice the hawk.(Normally he'll make this low caaaaaaccccckkk sound when he spots one).
We came inside again--forgetting about the hawk--and were playing with Galileo when the hawk came flying by our 15th floor window with a pigeon in his talons(a NYC hawk favorite!!)about 18 horizontal feet away from us and Galileo let out a scream like I have never heard before-- sounded something like the woman in the "Psycho" shower scene, and flung himself to the floor to hide under the coffee table. Poor little guy didn't find a normal heart beat for ages. :( As soon as we brought a treat out to sooth him, he somehow managed to still wolf it down :) Oh how they suffer.... ;)

Kokomo
09-04-2009, 01:46 AM
I'm still learning who's who here...but Kokomo's repsponse was a hoot!
Your visual was undoubtably, of a half dressed 20 year model....
as opposed to a over the hill old lady...ha,ha.

HEY HEY HEY...... TMI

:shrugCan't a man just enjoy a fantasy around here?:shrug

Sherry and Merry
09-04-2009, 02:26 AM
My vet told me that the smaller birds can actually have heart failure from being 'scared' or 'frightened'. He once held a parakeet in his hand to examine it and the birds heart was fluttering so fast (from fear) that it stopped beating. He tried to revive the bird, but couldn't.

Annrose
09-04-2009, 10:29 AM
Kokomo....You go w/your fantasies....the neighbors though...saw the real horror show...ha, ha, ha.

Kokomo
09-04-2009, 11:23 AM
Kokomo....You go w/your fantasies....the neighbors though...saw the real horror show...ha, ha, ha.

Thankyou. LOL.:)